alt Hacker News> If your car isn't packed to capacity on every single trip, it is less efficient and worse than public transit.
Cost is a great proxy for costs versus benefits. People choose cars because they are efficient for them.
In theory public transit is efficient. In practice, only if you live in a very high density area, or you value your time at $0.
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eldaisfish • last Friday at 2:55 PM
cars are barely efficient in terms of time. In cost terms, cars are incredibly expensive once you add in infrastructure costs, insurance, fuel, the cost of land use, etc.
Public transit is efficient even outside areas of high density - see suburban Europe or India. Why are so many people here utterly car-brained?
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There are a few low density places around the world where public transit is efficient for the average person.